Prosencephalon

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2-, 5-, and 6-Halo-3-(2(S)-azetidinylmethoxy)pyridines: synthesis, affinity for nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, and molecular modeling. 
  • A Distributed Recurrent Network Contributes to Temporally Precise Vocalizations. 
  • A Relationship between the Characteristics of the Oval Nucleus of the Mesopallium and Parrot Vocal Response to Playback. 
  • Acute changes in intracranial pressure and pressure-volume index after forebrain ischemia in normoglycemic and hyperglycemic rats. 
  • Adaptive Evolution of the GDH2 Allosteric Domain Promotes Gliomagenesis by Resolving IDH1R132H-Induced Metabolic Liabilities. 
  • Adolescent Intermittent Alcohol Exposure: Deficits in Object Recognition Memory and Forebrain Cholinergic Markers. 
  • Altered development of basal and forskolin-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in brain regions of rats exposed to nicotine prenatally. 
  • Ankyrin-G regulates forebrain connectivity and network synchronization via interaction with GABARAP. 
  • Associative learning and stimulus novelty influence the song-induced expression of an immediate early gene in the canary forebrain. 
  • Auditory plasticity in a basal ganglia-forebrain pathway during decrystallization of adult birdsong. 
  • BDNF regulates the maturation of inhibition and the critical period of plasticity in mouse visual cortex. 
  • BMP antagonism protects Nodal signaling in the gastrula to promote the tissue interactions underlying mammalian forebrain and craniofacial patterning. 
  • Behaviourally driven gene expression reveals song nuclei in hummingbird brain. 
  • Bmps: multifunctional regulators of mammalian embryonic development. 
  • Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) as regulators of dorsal forebrain development. 
  • Brain development, song learning and mate choice in birds: a review and experimental test of the "nutritional stress hypothesis". 
  • Brain region-specific disruption of Shank3 in mice reveals a dissociation for cortical and striatal circuits in autism-related behaviors. 
  • Can an old bird change his tune? 
  • Cellular determinants of reduced adaptability of the aging brain: neurotransmitter utilization and cell signaling responses after MDMA lesions. 
  • Cellular mechanisms for developmental toxicity of chlorpyrifos: targeting the adenylyl cyclase signaling cascade. 
  • Characterization of a recovery global cerebral ischemia model in the mouse. 
  • Characterization of the cell death promoter, Bad, in the developing rat retina and forebrain. 
  • Characterization of the ubiquitin-modified proteome regulated by transient forebrain ischemia. 
  • Chemogenetics-mediated acute inhibition of excitatory neuronal activity improves stroke outcome. 
  • Choline-induced spatial memory facilitation correlates with altered distribution and morphology of septal neurons. 
  • Chordin and noggin promote organizing centers of forebrain development in the mouse. 
  • Circuit and synaptic organization of forebrain-to-midbrain pathways that promote and suppress vocalization. 
  • Cortical plasticity induced by inhibitory neuron transplantation. 
  • Cryptic brain cell injury caused by fetal nicotine exposure is associated with persistent elevations of c-fos protooncogene expression. 
  • Decrements in auditory responses to a repeated conspecific song are long-lasting and require two periods of protein synthesis in the songbird forebrain. 
  • Deficiency of Shank2 causes mania-like behavior that responds to mood stabilizers. 
  • Depressed responses to applied and synaptically-released GABA in CA1 pyramidal cells, but not in CA1 interneurons, after transient forebrain ischemia. 
  • Development of glucocorticoid receptor regulation in the rat forebrain: implications for adverse effects of glucocorticoids in preterm infants. 
  • Development of intrinsic and synaptic properties in a forebrain nucleus essential to avian song learning. 
  • Developmental modification of synaptic NMDAR composition and maturation of glutamatergic synapses: matching postsynaptic slots with receptor pegs 
  • Developmental neurotoxicity of chlorpyrifos in vivo and in vitro: effects on nuclear transcription factors involved in cell replication and differentiation. 
  • Disruption of rat forebrain development by glucocorticoids: critical perinatal periods for effects on neural cell acquisition and on cell signaling cascades mediating noradrenergic and cholinergic neurotransmitter/neurotrophic responses. 
  • Divergence in problem-solving skills is associated with differential expression of glutamate receptors in wild finches. 
  • Effect of intracerebral norepinephrine depletion on outcome from severe forebrain ischemia in the rat. 
  • Effects of isoflurane versus fentanyl-nitrous oxide anesthesia on long-term outcome from severe forebrain ischemia in the rat. 
  • Elevated mu-opioid receptor expression in the nucleus of the solitary tract accompanies attenuated withdrawal signs after chronic low dose naltrexone in opiate-dependent rats. 
  • Ethanol consumption by Fawn-Hooded rats following abstinence: effect of naltrexone and changes in mu-opioid receptor density. 
  • Evolution of vocal learning and spoken language. 
  • Expression of a variant form of the glutamate transporter GLT1 in neuronal cultures and in neurons and astrocytes in the rat brain. 
  • Expression of mRNAs coding for the transforming growth factor-beta receptors in brain regions of euthyroid and hypothyroid neonatal rats and in adult brain. 
  • Fast modulation of prefrontal cortex activity by basal forebrain noncholinergic neuronal ensembles. 
  • Fetal cocaine exposure causes persistent noradrenergic hyperactivity in rat brain regions: effects on neurotransmitter turnover and receptors. 
  • Fezf2 regulates telencephalic precursor differentiation from mouse embryonic stem cells. 
  • Forebrain nuclei linked to woodpecker territorial drum displays mirror those that enable vocal learning in songbirds. 
  • Functional maturation of hPSC-derived forebrain interneurons requires an extended timeline and mimics human neural development. 
  • GBR12909 stimulates hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal activity by inhibition of uptake at hypothalamic dopamine neurons. 
  • Generation and behavioral characterization of beta-catenin forebrain-specific conditional knock-out mice. 
  • Global forebrain dynamics predict rat behavioral states and their transitions. 
  • Glucocorticoids and the development of neuronal function: effects of prenatal dexamethasone exposure on central noradrenergic activity. 
  • Glucocorticoids regulate the development of intracellular signaling: enhanced forebrain adenylate cyclase catalytic subunit activity after fetal dexamethasone exposure. 
  • Glutamate decreases mitochondrial size and movement in primary forebrain neurons. 
  • High-dose fentanyl does not adversely affect outcome from forebrain ischemia in the rat. 
  • Hypertrophy of basal forebrain neurons and enhanced visuospatial memory in perinatally choline-supplemented rats. 
  • In search of a mechanism for receptor-mediated neurobehavioral teratogenesis by nicotine: catecholamine release by nicotine in immature rat brain regions. 
  • In vitro neurogenesis by neuronal precursor cells derived from the adult songbird brain. 
  • Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase increases extracellular cerebral glutamate concentration after global ischemia. 
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to auditory selectivity in a song nucleus critical for vocal plasticity. 
  • Ischemic injury and extracellular amino acid accumulation in hippocampal area CA1 are not dependent upon an intact septo-hippocampal pathway. 
  • Lasting effects of developmental dexamethasone treatment on neural cell number and size, synaptic activity, and cell signaling: critical periods of vulnerability, dose-effect relationships, regional targets, and sex selectivity. 
  • Lesions of an avian forebrain nucleus that disrupt song development alter synaptic connectivity and transmission in the vocal premotor pathway. 
  • Long-lasting novelty-induced neuronal reverberation during slow-wave sleep in multiple forebrain areas. 
  • Mice overexpressing extracellular superoxide dismutase have increased resistance to global cerebral ischemia. 
  • Molecular taxonomy of major neuronal classes in the adult mouse forebrain. 
  • Neonatal chlorpyrifos exposure alters synaptic development and neuronal activity in cholinergic and catecholaminergic pathways. 
  • Neural correlates of learned song in the avian forebrain: simultaneous representation of self and others. 
  • Neuron-specific SUMO knockdown suppresses global gene expression response and worsens functional outcome after transient forebrain ischemia in mice. 
  • Neuronal ensemble bursting in the basal forebrain encodes salience irrespective of valence. 
  • Nitric oxide synthase is an active enzyme in the spiral ganglion cells of the rat cochlea. 
  • Nonenzymatic functions of acetylcholinesterase splice variants in the developmental neurotoxicity of organophosphates: chlorpyrifos, chlorpyrifos oxon, and diazinon. 
  • Periischemic cerebral blood flow (CBF) does not explain beneficial effects of isoflurane on outcome from near-complete forebrain ischemia in rats. 
  • Postmitotic expression of ankyrinR and beta R-spectrin in discrete neuronal populations of the rat brain. 
  • Prenatal cocaine and cell development in rat brain regions: effects on ornithine decarboxylase and macromolecules. 
  • Profiling of experience-regulated proteins in the songbird auditory forebrain using quantitative proteomics. 
  • Retina- and ventral forebrain-specific Cre recombinase activity in transgenic mice. 
  • Retinoic acid induction and regional differentiation prefigure olfactory pathway formation in the mammalian forebrain. 
  • Roles of organizer factors and BMP antagonism in mammalian forebrain establishment. 
  • Rudimentary substrates for vocal learning in a suboscine. 
  • Simultaneous detection of intracellular free calcium and zinc using fura-2FF and FluoZin-3. 
  • Slow NMDA-EPSCs at synapses critical for song development are not required for song learning in zebra finches. 
  • Small ubiquitin-like modifier 2 (SUMO2) is critical for memory processes in mice. 
  • Song decrystallization in adult zebra finches does not require the song nucleus NIf. 
  • Sympathetic ganglionic blockade masks beneficial effect of isoflurane on histologic outcome from near-complete forebrain ischemia in the rat. 
  • Synaptic mechanisms for auditory-vocal integration and the correction of vocal errors. 
  • Telencephalic neurons monosynaptically link brainstem and forebrain premotor networks necessary for song. 
  • The HVC microcircuit: the synaptic basis for interactions between song motor and vocal plasticity pathways. 
  • The effects of anesthetics on stress responses to forebrain ischemia and reperfusion in the rat. 
  • The neurobiology of innate, volitional and learned vocalizations in mammals and birds. 
  • The organizer factors Chordin and Noggin are required for mouse forebrain development. 
  • Tracking brain volume changes in C57BL/6J and ApoE-deficient mice in a model of neurodegeneration: a 5-week longitudinal micro-MRI study. 
  • Transcriptional biomarkers distinguish between vulnerable periods for developmental neurotoxicity of chlorpyrifos: Implications for toxicogenomics. 
  • Transient postnatal elevation of norepinephrine content and turnover in brain regions of rats exposed to terbutaline prenatally: evidence for autoregulation of noradrenergic development? 
  • Waiting periods versus early innervation: the development of axonal connections in the zebra finch song system. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Hogan, Brigid L. M., Research Professor of Cell Biology, Cell Biology